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 UNITED KINGDOM

King: Charles III. · Prime Minister: Rishi Sunak (CON) · Governing party: CON
Legislative elections: House of Commons, 5-year term, 650 seats, FPTP:

  2019 2017 2015 2010
Party Ideology % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
Conservative and Unionist Party (CON)
  		 Conservatism
Economic liberalism
Euroscepticism		 43,6 365 42,4 318 36,9 331 36,1 307
Labour Party (LAB)  
  		 Social democracy        32,1 203 40,0 262 30,4 232 29,0 258
Liberal Democrats (LD)  
 		 Liberalism
Social liberalism		 11,5 11 7,4 12 7,9 8 23,0 57
Scottish National Party (SNP)  
 		 Separatism
Social democracy		 3,9 48 3,0 35 4,7 56 1,7 6
Green Party (GP)  
 		 Green politics 2,7 1 1,6 1 3,8 1 0,9 1
The Brexit Party (BREXIT PARTY)
   		 Euroscepticism
Right-wing populism
Economic liberalism		 2,0 - - - - - - -
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
  		 Unionism
National conservatism
Social conservatism		 0,8 8 0,9 10 0,6 8 0,6 8
Sinn Féin (SF)  
  		 United Ireland
Democratic socialism      		 0,6 7 0,7 7 0,6 4 0,6 5
Plaid Cymru-Party of Wales (PC)  
   		 Separatism
Social democracy		 0,5 4 0,5 4 0,6 3 0,6 3
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)  
  		 United Ireland
Social democracy		 0,4 2 0,3 - 0,3 3 0,4 3
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
 		 Liberalism  0,4 1 0,2 - 0,2 - 0,1 1
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
(a) 		 Unionism
Conservatism		 0,3 - 0,3 - 0,4 2 0,3 -
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)
   		 Euroscepticism
Right-wing populism
Economic liberalism		 0,1 - 1,8 - 12,6 1 3,1 -
Independents 1,1 1 0,9 1 1,0 1 3,6 1
Others - - - -
Total - 650 - 650 - 650 - 650
Turnout 67,3 68,7 66,1 65,1

© 2019 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: BBC (www.bbc.com).  For full coverage, click here (1945-present). Note: (a) 2010: Ulster Conservatives and Unionists-New Force (UCU).